Movie Review: Rabbit-Proof Fence

This was an aspirating movie which portrayed three aboriginal young children who lived in Jigalong lead a carefree life with their mother and grandmother. One day, they were force to leave their family and accepted white people’s education in Roore River. Molly, 14-year-old, who was reluctant to submit to their assimilation policy took two younger sister away and started their 1500 kilos back home journey. On their way home, a tracker was assigned to take them back. Molly had already set up her mind to go home. Hungry as they were and hard time as it was, Molly’s clever decisions helped her sisters escaped from the tracker’s capture. As Molly followed the Rabbit-Proof Fence to find way home, they were at the edge of dying when they across the desert. Finally, Molly and her younger sister successfully overcame every obstacle and saw their mother and grandmother who stretched their arms to welcome them come back home safely.


The Australian aboriginal chief protector imposed the assimilation policy on Australian aboriginal children. He believed that white people was the most superior race and insisted on increasing the percentage of white people’s population. At first, I was glad that the aboriginal children could receive education but to my disappointment, as the children grew up, they did not have equal respect, whereas men worked as labor farmer and women worked as servant for the white family. However, Japan had ever imposed assimilation but its goal was to have Taiwanese people be loyal to the Japanese Mikado. Though as the Taiwanese children went to school, they were been separated from the Japanese children which might be seemed as discrimination, the difference was that Japanese chief did not intend to make Taiwanese children become labor or servant when they grew up.


What impressed me most was whenever the tracker appeared and the three young children had almost been caught. Every moment, I hold my breath and blessed that they won’t be caught. The tracker’s eye was as sharp as eagle, his smell was as smart as dog and his brain was as clever as owl. But Molly was wiser than the tracker. First, she observed the weather and waited until it rain which could cleanse their footprints. Later on, Molly walked in the river to have their footprints vanish. Later, as they were almost caught at Mavis’s home, Molly used a broom to erase their footprints so as to pretend that they had escaped for at least one hour but actually, they lay on the bush. Next, Molly wore socks on the stones to make vague footprints. How alert Molly was! She did not make decision on impulse but acted before she thought it twice. In such a tough situation, even as for me, I could not calm myself down! Molly did a great job and finally went back home.

Movie Review: Solas

I was deeply touched by this movie. How amazing a mother’s love could be showed with non-verbal language and how lonely a senior citizen was when he had no wife and grandchildren accompanied him. As Maria was still a young girl, his drunken father gambled and beaten his family members. She could not withstand what his rude father had done so she left her parent’s house in the countryside and move to the city, working as a cleaner. One time, her father was sick and hospitalized. Rosa, Maria’s mother came to live with her but only for temporally, trying to build a bridge to communicate with her lovely daughter. Maria gradually quit smoking and drinking alcohol, treasuring the time she spent with her mother. A new born baby was her determination to be a responsible and respected mother for her own children. Though the children did not have a father who cared him but there were an adopted grandfather whose love would weight much more than anyone had ever thought.

Rosa quietly cared about her daughter as she hurt herself and even as she was pregnant. Basically, while I made mistakes, my mother would scold me first that made my mood went down to worse. At that moment, what I appreciated was a gentle and careful mother just as Rosa who without saying any words calmed her daughter by healing her broken heart. One time, Rosa glimpsed her daughter kissed by a man at the bar through the window. Maria was conscious of her mother who turned around and left without rushing into it. At that moment, Maria was guilt about what she had done－drinking alcohol and smoking. Additionally, in the movie, while there were leisure times, Rosa would sit down and knitted. Without any second thought, I guessed that she just knitted it for fun with no purpose. But, to my astonishment, a red sleeveless woolen vest and a pink baby cloth filled with a mother’s love was for her daughter－Maria. A person’s love could be express through words but the most impressive way was through action toward the one I cared about.

This was such a touching movie that I would like to recommend to three group of people. The first one was the teenagers who may ignore and misunderstand their parent’s care and than may do things that had already broken their parent’s heart. Another group was the offspring who had to share the senior citizen’s feelings and be patient about them. The last group was the single mother who should be brave to confront the difficulties even when her boyfriend was not willing to shoulder the burden of bringing up the baby. Solas was such an aspiring movie that it caught my attention thoroughly and every scene beat my heart violently.